Biden also unveiled a key figure on his Economic Team which includes his nomination of former Federal Reserve chair janet yellen to be treasury secretary, one day after he announced his Communications Team will be led by a Diverse Group of women. You see them there. And two weeks before the Electoral College meets to officially elect the next president , arizona officially certified joe biden as the winner. Were talking wisconsin. They will certify results later today after a partial recount ended with biden netting another 87 votes. The president himself remaining at the white house, still refusing to accept defeat and tweeting out more baseless charges and attacks. We want to begin with the latest on the transfer of power. Joining us is mike memoli with the Biden Transition Team in delaware. And carol lee near the white house, and sam stein politics editor for the bailey beasdail welcome. Mike, ill start with you on this. I want to start with those appointments critical in the Economics Department and communications department. Talk us through who the president elect has chosen and what message hes sending. Yeah. Historic choice on both fronts here on the communications side and on the economic side. On the communications side, the press secretary is one of the most if not the highest profile person other than the president himself in terms of how the public sees the administration. So in jen psaki, a choice there that reflects the leading women of his Communications Team. Kate bedingfield and karine jeanpierre. Working mothers as well. These are women with Young Children as well who will be running the communications job. On the economics side, an interesting choice. Janet yellen as the choice to be the treasury secretary. The first woman on the job there. Its interesting weve seen all these names on paper today. We will see them in person tomorrow. What the country will see is a reflection of what biden promised during the course of the campaign that is to have an administration that reflects the diversity of the country. Cecelia rouse as the head of the economic advisers. What these nominations bring, janet yellen in her case, to twitter for the first time. She went on talking about the challenges we face as a country and the need to recover. She says we must restore the American Dream as treasury secretary i will work every day towards rebuilding that dream for all. Janet yellen making her debut on twitter. Another choice that president elect biden has announced as the omb director, neera tanden. It could be a bruising confirmation battle. Already some Senate Republicans, including some who have not yet even acknowledged that biden has been president , calling attention to some of the tweets. Some of the tweets shes deleting as well. But she is somebody also bringing diversity to the Biden Cabinet both in terms of her racial diversity and diversity of lived experience. Shes somebody who democrats are pointing out she grew up, you know, impoverished and benefited from a lot of social Welfare Plans that she l. Will be helpi to protect. Neera tanden will be one difficult for the administration. So, sam, mike makes a good transition, i dont know how he knew i was going to go there, im talking about confirmation. We dont know what will happen in georgia. We dont know who will have control of the senate. That will tip things in one direction or the other. All that being said, who do you think could prove to be difficult to get confirmed in the confirmation process . Like you said, everything depends on the results of georgia, which could make it somewhat not a cakewalk but easy to see all these people getting through to a reality in which it becomes extremely difficult to get a lot of them through. Im not going to break new ground here, i believe neera tanden has the toughest path forward. Its not for lack of skill. You talk to economists on the left and Party Official s in democratic circles, to a person they think shes incredibly bright, talented, well suited for the job and probably could be the most progressive omb director if confirmed ever. She has a background in health care that would be well suited for the current position and pandemic, but she also has an expertise in government which makes her wellsuited for that post. The issue is not that, its her tweets which, you know, as an avid twitter user its sad to see, but its the reality of politics today. Shes gone after republicans, but shes gone after and pushed back on some of the more progressive left, specifically Bernie Sanders supporters. For that shes burned some bridges. Whether thats enough to stop her confirmation is anyones guess. Youre already seeing a number of Senate Republicans paint her as too much of a Party Official, toopartisan, i should say, to occupy that post. Well see if that path gets easier in the days ahead. Odd that one person is held against their tweets and yet others are not. The current president in the white house still refusing defeat here. Spreading baseless claims on twitter, spreading conspiracy theories on twitter. Is this what we can expect from the president for the next 50 days or so as we march towards january 20th . I think we can certainly expect the president to use his twitter account regularly and frequently from now until the inauguration. And then beyond. Thats just the way the president likes to communicate. Weve heard a lot more from him on twitter than we have from him in person. We have heard from him in recent days in person, he called into fox news yesterday. The other thing youll hear from the president both when he speaks publicly and on his twitter feed is more of this attacking anyone who he sees as not on side with his efforts to try to drum up this allegation that there was some sort of fraud in the election. And that it was taken from him. Weve seen him cast aside just in recent days any number of people who otherwise would be considered allies of the president , the governor of georgia, for instance. The president said yesterday hes ashamed that he endorsed him in 2018. Today on twitter he is again going after him saying that he demands that he get involved in the Election Results there in georgia. And the governor who is again an ally of the president is responding to him saying i cant get involved in elections in his own state. Insert himself in that process. The president , as weve seen, has gone after fox news, a News Organization he is considered a close ally. Hes gone after judges, including a judge in pennsylvania who was nominated by President Trump and wrote a rather scathing opinion when he brought a case to court saying that there was no evidence. So this is kind of what youre going to see. I thought one of the most interesting comments the president made yesterday in his interview with fox was that were going to just going to continue seeing this. After all the states have certified, after his court cases have run their course, that hes not going to back down and will never not believe what hes currently saying. He said nothing is going to change his mind. In six months from now hes still going to feel the exact same way. Mike, real quick. I want to talk about the attorney general. Thats the next major position that folks will be looking to as to who will be appointed to that spot. Some names floated here, deval patrick, sally yates. They seem like they would have an easier time getting confirmed, but sally yates could be controversial seeing she didnt institute the president s muslim ban when he wanted her to. What do you hear when it comes to attorney general . This is an interesting position for sure in part because of what carol and i have done some reporting on, which is the pressure thats going to be on then President Joe Biden to consider investigations of the trump administration. The attorney general is going to be somebody overseeing a Justice Department that would very well potentially handle that. Biden has been very clear according to advisers about not wanting to necessarily have his administration be consumed by investigations of his predecessor. But in sally yates you see somebody who was aware of investigations into President Trump when she was the Deputy Attorney general but also would be a target on the right. Theres pressure on biden according to sources were hearing from to make sure theres diversity among the big four cabinet positions, secretary of state, secretary of defense, treasury and a. G. This might affect who is the choice ultimately for attorney general, deval patrick, former governor of massachusetts is considered a leading choice for that. Biden has no shortage of options for defense and a. G. , two of those positions in the big four still left untilled at this point. Thank you, guys. Good to see you this afternoon. Coronavirus cases here, they are surging at Nursing Homes across this country. According to the centers for medicare and medicaid services, almost 70,000 residents in the home have died from the virus. Its not just the residents affected by covid. Today marks one week since almost 700 nursing home and longterm care workers went on strike in the chicago area demanding a livable wage and more ppe. Valerie castro is at a location near chicago for us. Thank you for joining us on this. You actually talked to some employees there recently. What are they telling you about their current working conditions . Yasmin, the workers are from 11 different facilities owned by Infinity Care management, a health care management. And they own one of the facilities behind me. The workers tell us their contract expired in may and they have been trying to negotiate a new one ever since. But with nothing coming to fruition, they decided to go on strike last monday and they are demanding what they say is a living wage. 15. They say they also want pandemic pay or hazard pay and say the ppe they have is inadequate. In some cases theyre wearing the same things for several days at a time. We heard from a worker who said she believes she contracted covid while working in this building. And she said while she was quarantining at home, her husband then also got sick. She believes he caught it from her and he had to spend a week in the hospital. While these workers are out on strike there are substitute workers here. So the workers say that they are concerned now for the health and safety of the residents that they looked after for so long. Take a listen to what they had to say. I work in an alzheimers dementia unit. Thats difficult for me now. Im worried if theyre getting fed, if theyre being repositioned. Are they being changed. I go in there and i take care of them, but im not being taken care of myself. I cant take care of you if im not healthy. These workers add that they feel like theyre risking their lives every time they go to work. The union that represents them said they heard from a federal mediator asking that both parties reconvene tomorrow night at 5 00 p. M. To hopefully come to an agreement. The union says they have a proposal. Theyre waiting to see if infinity is willing to come to an agreement. We reached out to infinity today for a statement but they said they have no comment. Coming up, well have much more on the race for a covid19 vaccine. Ill be joined by operation warp speeds director of supply, production and distribution after the break. Dont miss that interview. Well be right back. Irresistibly smooth chocolate. To put the world on pause. Lindor. Made to melt you. By the lindt master chocolatier. Experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list sales event. Sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down, zero due at signing, and a complimentary first months payment. With zero down, zero due at signing, the teams been working around the clock. Wire, weve had to rethink our whole approach. Were going to give togetherness. Logistically, its been a nightmare. Im not sure its going to work. Itll work. I didnt know you were listening. Welcomeising news when it comes to the coronavirus vaccine. Moderna announced its products efficacy against coronavirus is 94 . That goes up to 100 against severe disease. Weve been very clear with our data, not just the efficacy and the safety. Thus far weve not seen a significant reason for concern as far as safety. Tomorrow a group of cdc advisers will meet to vote on who they recommend to receive the vaccine first. Joining us now is paul ostrowski. Thanks for joining us on this. Appreciate it. Now your job is incredibly important Going Forward considering the distribution of this vaccine is going to save lives at this point, save millions of lives across this country. Lets get to it. I want to play to you some sound from operation warp speeds chief adviser. He talks about the timeline we can expect here. So, all in all, six vaccines, all in the clinic, two shortly to be available. Two more available late january and february. The last two to be available probably somewhere in april or may. So, give us us the real timeline here on when folks could expect to get this vaccine. Well, sure. The doctor made the right points, two right away here hopefully before the end of the year. Well have moderna at about 18 million doses available. Pfizer right at about 22. 5 million doses available by the end of the year. Then it starts getting into the trial piece with respect to jansen and astrazeneca. Massive trials, 30,000 participants and more. We want to get to our end state with respect to where those vaccines end up in terms of efficacy. After that, sanofi and novavax, getting those into Clinical Trials and bringing those online. So he had it exactly correct. So in regards to months, though, we know that Front Line Health Care workers will be the first folks getting this vaccine. If you are a regular ordinary american, when could you expect to see this vaccine . Yeah. I would tell you that the bottom line is right after the first part of the second quarter. Start thinking about april or may timeframe, we will have the massive amount of vaccines necessary to ensure the rest of america is covered down. Early and often up front well have smaller doses, which we will prioritize. But later on, starting the second quarter, well have enough for the rest of americans to receive vaccines. So a lot of folks are less worried about urban areas because they have the resources to handle many of these vaccines, especially with the Pfizer Vaccine. They have the resources to keep those vaccines in those deep freeze environments. Its the rural areas that a lot more folks are worried about. I want to read some of you from the piece from the washington post. They write responsibility for their inoculation will fall to a Public Health system maimed by budget cuts and driven by racial inequities. The daytoday delivery of shots will play out at understaffed clinics, overwhelmed pharmacies and beleaguered facilities. This will be a lot of challenges to distribute this to rural communities. What is your plan to make sure the folks in these rural communities, the folks the target of many of these covid diagnoses, how is it going to get to them . Clearly these are issues that were addressing. The key thing is to rehearse, rehearse, rehearse. You have to have a plan and then rehearse it with the states. Have the states brief back exactly on how they plan on getting the vacs to thocines th mentioned. Getting them the resources they need, working with the states. The state knows where these populations are and working with them. Whether we go with pharmacies or go with the Public Health centers, all our options that will enordable us to get the vaccines to the right people at the right times. Are you rehearsing now with placebos . Weve been rehearsing in terms of the planning. Working with the states each and every week. We run through the states, determine what their plan is with a particular vaccine, the Pfizer Vaccine and Cold Chain Storage or the moderna vaccine. Each of those are critically important for us to understand the limits and boundaries and be able to make the best determination as to which vaccines go to what part of the populations. How do you deal with the misinformation . Theres a lot of folks out there who believe this virus is a hoax. A lot of folks vogt evoted for president believe its just the flew, nothing flu, nothing to worry about, its all about gone. How do you get people like that to get vaccines . Shows like this where you have interviews to show where were at in terms of distribution and arrest. Shows with doctor Anthony Fauci to show just exactly how important it is that people get vaccinated and the rigorous process weve been through all these many months to get where we are today. Thats extremely important to all of us. Thank you for doing that. Then its working together with the states, with the cdc to get the word out there and make sure we have the right campaigns in order to address every american. How do you get to every american at this point, especially those folks who are not necessarily getting information out there that were giving every day . How do you get to them and follow up with them . As we well know with these vaccines it will take two doses of the vaccine. They have to show up once, get the vaccine and then show up a second time. We have to get out there with the commercial marketplace to make sure we have the advertising necessary. In the coming weeks youll see a Better Campaign associated with that now that we know what we have in terms of vaccines. We didnt want to overpromise and underdeliver. Were in a position now where we know we have two emergency youth authorizations supplied and provided to the fda. We have a rough timeline on when these could come out. Now is the time to get the campaign out. The vaccine with Confidence Campaign that the cdc runs, thats our path Going Forward. The president has repeatedly said the military will be involved in distribution of this vaccine. How will they be involved . Really its not up to the military. We have a robust commercial marketplace thats able to do this. It does it today with reflect to the influenza vaccine. Its doing it now. So the military role is enables and bandwidth. No one entity, health and lumen servi Human Services was not manned to take on such a huge challenge. So were enabling and providing bandwidth in terms of that. Logistical supply chain capturing, assistance in planning. Those attributes we bring to the table with Program Management and contracting. How are you guys making up for time lost with the biden team, considering how this transition has been going so far . I personally briefed the biden team last wednesday before thanksgiving. Were very much in touch with them. Frankly just by listening to these comments today, all the comments that have been made by others with respect to the discussions on these vaccines in the public realm, weve hid nothing. Its been completely transparent. So the biden team has been listening to that. That they asked good questions and made us think hard about where were at. What is your expectations come june for how Many Americans will have had this vaccine . 100 of americans who want the vaccine will have it at that time. Well have over 300 million doses available to the American Public before then. Paul ostrowski, appreciate it. Appreciate the work youve been doing and joining us today. Thank you very much. An incredibly important day. Thank you. Lawmakers are back in d. C. This week for a very brief session before the next holiday recess. Time is short. So how realistic that theyll pass a covid stimulus bill to help millions of desperate americans . Youre watching msnbc. What do we want for dinner . Burger. I want a sugar cookie. Wait. I want a bucket of chicken. I want. Its the easiest because its the cheesiest. Kraft. For the win win. Welcome back. Congress is back this week with limited time to provide relief to millions of americans who are suffering due to this pandemic. A whole slew of relief measures were set to run out in about a month. Like expanded Unemployment Insurance and the Eviction Moratorium but the picture is not looking better for americans. The jobless claims topped 778,000 last week with over 6 million continuing claims. Food banks across the country are seeing long lines and a surge in demand right now. According to feeding america, 1 in 155 adults are food insecure and 1 in 4 kids. Joining me now is political Senior Writer and coauthor of playbook, jake sherman. Jake, good to see you this afternoon. Thanks for joining us on this. I dont know how many times a week, we have this conversation as to whether or not well get relief for americans across the board from washington, the answer seems almost always know. Maybe theres some light, right . Maybe theres good news at this point. My understanding is nbc news has some reporting that there is a Bipartisan Group of senators at this Point Holding informal discussions about compromise legislation. What is the likelihood that americans could see the relief before these key things run out like extended Unemployment Insurance . Theres a big deadline, december 11th, government funding runs out, as if we needed another potential financial and fiscal calamity. The government is planning to run out of money december 11th. Theres two things to keep in mind. Number one, theres the bigger packages that we have seen, the Coronavirus Relief packages that passed earlier this year. Something of that magnitude does not seem likely. But what we could see, what we might see in these waning days of 2020 is Congress Extends some of the key elements of the ppp. Items like the Paycheck Protection Program and things like that nature. Enhanced unemployment benefits. What we consistently see, we see in public polling every week that americans top priority that Congress Gets a Coronavirus Relief bill. Weve seen congress not do practically anything despite negotiating for the last six or so months. So, i would keep our expectations tempered. I think early next year the Biden Administration has said they want a covid relief package early on. This will be if it doesnt get done this month, it will be a continuing story. So we know that, right . But i was speaking to a woman last week who said her Unemployment Insurance is about to run out. She could get evicted in the next 20 days. It wont matter for her if by early next year theyll get reli relief. She will have already lost her house and kicked out. Shell be lining up for food at food pantries. Talk me through where democrats and republicans are at . Last i heard it seemed as if nancy pelosi wanted a fullthroated relief bill, the republicans wanted a part and parcel relief bill. Is that changing . Is that calculus changing . Such an important point. Democrats have not changed their position. Neither have republicans. Democrats demanded a large scale package which would ride alongside a lot of money for state and localities, thats been the big Sticking Point for democrats. They want a big package for state and local governments. Republicans have said no. Republicans democrats have moved their top line number down, but there are individual items that remain Sticking Points. Republicans just minutes ago on the senate floor, Mitch Mcconnell said that democrats have lost leverage. So he doesnt see his he doesnt see any need to move in this lame duck period either. The one person were not talking about is the president of the United States who has been completely disengaged from anything having to do with legislation or the legislative process. Its like we have, you know, a commander in chief asleep at the wheel here when it comes to capitol hill and congress with such important weighty issues at hand and lingering for the american people. He seems completely disassociated it seems with anything that the americans need right now when you have the prospect that 50 million americans by the end of the year that could be food insecure. I know a lot of governors and states are stepping up to fill the void. Is it enough for americans . Its not going to be. Governors and localities say they need money for state and localities from the federal government. The answer is no. Tax revenues are a problem. Theres a lot of extra costs associated with covid. I think this problem will become more acute in the new year. 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Rhode island announced that hospitals across the state are at capacity. Residents received this alert on their phones this morning after the state opened its first Field Hospital earlier today. Los angeles conesiunty implemen its toughest restrictions since the spring. People from different households are not able to gather. Essential Retail Stores have to reduce capacity to 35 . Floridas governor announced that Public Schools will remain open throughout the spring but parents will have to option to switch their kids to Virtual Learning. And the countrys largest Public School system will begin a phased reopening starting december 7th. New york city mayor bill deblasio announced elementary and special education students can return to the classroom for five day a week inperson classes. In about 20 minutes, expect to hear from the Kentucky Governor as a legal fight heats up over his states covid restrictions. A federal appeals order upheld classes at public and private and religious schools. The state attorney general said he will appeal the decision to the supreme court. Kentuckys covid19 cases continue to soar increasing by 35 over the last two weeks. Joining me now is mora barrett. Thanks for joining us on this. What are you hearing from parents there about these restrictions on schools . Good afternoon. Parents are feeling extremely frustrated despite the fact that the governors argument is that hes trying to keep families safe by shutting down schools. The state had to add Testing Centers like this one across the state in order to accommodate, but parents are not looking to just get their kids outs of the house and back to school, they say they feel safe because the date from the cdc and not many cases traced back to schools but theyre concerned about the social and Emotional Wellbeing of their children and the effects that Virtual Learning is having rather than being inperson. Listen to what one father told me. I have no doubt our kids would be safe in an environment that, you know, they can learn and i think there is some hypocrisy on whats hope aopen not. Not just the city but the state on what continues to be open and based on the data, it sounds like the kids are safest in school is what the cdc recently said. And whats more, over the weekend we saw dr. Fauci on the sunday shows that he thinks that it makes more sense to shut down restaurants and bars than schools because thats where were seeing a i lot of the spread when people are unmasked and indoors. So parents echoing that when they talk about bars and restaurants being partially open, gyms being partially open but kids not being able to go to school in person. The legal battle over private schooling comes down to what they see as an infringement on First Amendment rights with the separation of church and state considering a lot of these private schools are religious. Thats what we expect to see from the attorney general and hopefully well hear more from the governor in the next hour. All right. Maura barrett, thank you. Good to see you. So im joined by dr. Kavita patel. Thank you for joining us on this. A couple things to talk through. I think its astounding as we hear this new information on schools. It shows us how little we knew back in march when schools were immediately shut down and the coronavirus was spreading like wildfire, especially in the northeast. Now theres a sense that its not what we thought it once was. Yeah. Thats right. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that, you know, especially with children. We wanted to be more humble in our approach in march because we do still have cases of children that are dying, theyre being hospitalized at a higher rate than they would for other illnesses. We do not want to trivialize the effect on children. But to your point in terms of where were getting sources of infections in schools, its primarily through adults transmitting it to other adults and then to children. So the entire picture has rested on the fact that because of this lack of economic support, this lack of a National Testing strategy, weve been forced to make bad decisions all around. Closing businesses, closing schools, and kickipicking betwee two when what we want to do is find a way to keep everything safe but open to the extent possible. Yeah. Hence why americans need relief. Well say it over and over again. I was talking to mr. Paul ostrowski earlier on in the show. He is with operation warp speed. I asked him aboby june of 2021 t he expects the percentage of americans to have this vaccine. He said by june 100 of americans will have this vaccine. You think thats realistic . I dont. Heres why. We still are dealing with Vaccine Hesitancy and candidly vaccine myths ands did information. The ability for people to believe whats on social media and not have a conversation with their doctors is astounding to me. And i worry that unless we make material changes in how we get this vaccine to communities of color, places that dont have the Freezer Capacity that we will still see black and brown communities undervaccinated untested and untreated. When you go into the hospital tomorrow, you will hear about how it costs money to do this. And when we have 100,000 opt hospitalizations for covid, well all be focusing on the acute problem at hand and we need staff to distribute the vaccine. We dont have that. I dont believe we can get to 100 by june. So how do you i no this will be a huge question for you to answer. I can always depend on you for the right answer. How do you disseminate the right kind of information to the rural communities, the black and brown communities to make sure they get it first, they get this vaccine especially when they have been predispositioned to get this virus more so than so many other americans because of their comorbidities . Yeah. Im going to Say Something somewhat controversial here because my background is in policy and Public Health. We need to start trusting communitybased sources. We need to go to barbershops, churches, we need to go to the people who own Corner Food Stores that are fast food convenient. This is where people of color are getting meals, this is where theyre having conversations. We need to do that because theyre trusted sources in the community. We should take it out of the hands of just hospitals or a privileged few and we need to disseminate this widely. Thats going to take it doesnt take big dollars, it takes Ground Resources and awareness and it takes selfawareness that like me being the front face is not the answer. But people who are trusted inside everyday america is the answer. Thats just im hoping the Biden Harris Team will do it. But thats what it will take. Yeah. So good. I knew you would have the answer to that. Just real quick, one last question for you. Someone on twitter asked me this question. At what point will we know how long this vaccine is effective for . We do have some early trial data. We have been watching over time that we think this gets us at least kind of what we call neutralizing antibodies or immunity for months and months. Hopefully longer. Whats good is that were seeing in the data that our bodies are building kind of memory cells for immunity. Thats what you want to look for for longerterm immunity. So good news is that this is not a shortterm hopefully vaccine, but this will hopefully give us longer term immunity. Maybe we need a booster shot, maybe a repeat dose. But this will carry us through for at least kind of months if not years. Thats better than good news. Thats great news. Dr. Kavita patel, thank you as always. All eyes are on georgia where in a couple weeks a couple of runoff elections will determine who gets in the senate. First a funeral was held today for Mohsen Fakhizadeh who founded the Nuclear Program of iran. He was killed on friday. A Senior Iranian security official telling nbc that fakhizadeh was killed by an Electronic Device controlled remotely by satellite. No one was present at the actual skeen scene. The iranian government believes israel was behind the attack. Israel has not commented on the attack nor that President Trump who has a tumultuous relationship with iran. Iran maintains its Nuclear Program is peaceful. Youre watching msnbc. 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The second statewide recount is currently under way, with workers pushing to meet the wednesday deadline. Joining me is the ceo of the new georgia project, an effort to civically engage voters. Really appreciate you joining us. Wow, all eyes on your state, obviously, for control of the senate in january. Im sure you got a lot of folks on the ground there campaigning. So, talk me through your organization and what exactly youre doing to get more voters to turn out in january and which voters are you specifically targeting. We are the new georgia project. We have a nonpartisan Civic Engagement organization that helped half a million georgians register to vote in all 159 of georgias counties. And we tend to focus on what is known as the new american majority. Georgias rising electorate. Young people, people of color, women and femmes, new americans, people who have just become u. S. S it is essentials. We register people to vote, expanding the electorate by adding half a million new people to the voter rolls, but we spend a lot of time researching messaging, how to talk to people, how to build what we call a super voter, someone who votes in every election in which theyre eligible. And so, yes, that is the new georgia, that is the work of the new georgia project and that is the work that were going to continue on the way to the january 5th runoff. So, i found this fascinating from the hill and i want to read it to you, some numbers that i got. We have finalized voting data from the georgia brd of elections and showed a significant amount of undervoting, meaning when voters only vote for the president ial candidate and now the down ballot races, so, according to that data, you have over 46,000 georgians who voted for the president ial race but not for the Purdue Ossoff race, with 83,000 doing the same with loeffler and warnock. How do you get people enthused for downballot races . First, 5 Million People voted in the november 3rd election and so, 83,000, while significant, right, is not a majority in any way. And i think that that reflects, you know, again, new people, people with limited english proficiency, like, there are a number of reasons why someone would undervote and only vote in the president ial election and because of the work that we do and because of how we do our work, which is having high qualify conversations with georgians over the longterm, about issues that matter, we suspect, or we expect more of those reasons to come out in the post election conversations and followup that were going to be having with our voters. So, quickly, the president has repeatedly made baseless claims about the validity of this election over and over again. Are you worried that voters arent going to turn out because they feel like their vote wont count . Im a worrier, and because its not just the president and misinformation and his disinformation campaigns and sort of a desperate attempt to salvage whatever this is that hes doing, but also because we are trying to turn people out over the high holidays, right . So, thanksgiving, christmas, new years, hanukkah, all of these things, were competing for eyeballs and ears and hearts and minds and attention, and with, you know, headed twa ed towardsd of the year, the end of a moratorium on evictions, 12 million americans might lose their homes, theres a lot that is competing with hearts, minds and attentions. Yeah, a lot of americans being pushed up against a wall right now. Dont worry, you are in good company, we are all worriers. Nse, thank you for talking with us. Thats all for me. Amin will be back at 3 00 p. M. Eastern. Deadline white house with Nicolle Wallace starts right after a quick break. Ight after a quick break. Did now in the app, get a free footlong when you buy two. 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